Improvement in hoisting-drum



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Letters .Patent No. 74,445-, dated February Il, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOISTING-DRUM.

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I TO ALL WIIOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, HENRY STRICKLER, of Carlisle, in the county of Cumberland, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and improved IIay-IIoisting Drum; and I de hereby declare that the following is a, full, clear, andcxact description thereof, which willenable those skilled in the art to malte and use the same, reference being had t0 the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of my invention. i

Figure 2 is a section ofthe shaft, through the line a; a', fig. l

Similarletters of reference indicatecorresponding parts.

This invention refers to a drum or whin for the purpose of unloading hay from a wagon, and is designed to be located in some suitable place near. or withinthe entrance of a barn. It consists of a drum, working on a vertical shaft, the said drum being held firmly by means of a ratchet-device, when the shaft is turned to wind up the cord, lifting the hay from the wagon, and liberated when thc hay is to be lowered into the mow. These parts, together with other devices perfecting the whole, will bc hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings, A is a shaft, of wood, having a reduced end, Zr, on whichthe drum D revolves. This drum winds a cord, B, which terminates in a hay-harpoon, or other equivalent mechanism for graspin,r a large quantity of hay. A sweep-har, C, is for the purpose of bitching thereto a horse or mule, which is driven around in the ordinary manner. m is tho halter-staff. The drum D winds up the cord B, which' passes-over some pulley in the upper part of the barn, but rst against a guide-pulley, (Z, which latter holds the cord in the proper position with reference to the drum.

In order that the hay can be lowered without backing` the horse, a ratchet-device, consistingr of the lever h, pawl a, and ratchet-teeth e, vis provided, and when it is required to lower the .hay previously lifted, theA pawl ais pressed down,'and the drum being liberated, revolves upon its bearing, b, whereby the cord is unwound andthe hay descends upon the mow. That the hay may not descend too rapidly, the brake g, pivoted to the end of the lever h,'serves, as its name imports, to stop the drum, for when the pawl a is pressed downward stilll more, the brake g encounters the lower face ofthe drum, and causes suilicicnt braking-friction. The brake q and the pawl a have vertical motion in the guides 7c, which, in practice, would be a cast-iron plate, formed substantially as shown. The lever is pivoted at within a central mortisc in theshaft A. The base of the drum is notched around the edge with several large notches, e, for the purpose of catching against the pawl a, for the purpose of enabling the said pawl to hohl the drum rigidly when the cord is being wound thereon. .The pawl a is pivoted to the levc'rph and the handle Z, and by the latter the pawl and the brake are operated.

The common method of unloading hay with a horse was to hitch the cord to the whillle-tree, and lead the animal to and fro in the operation of unloading. My improvements dispense with this objectionable method, and provide the means of unloading hay in a more satisfactory manner than that cited above.

The shaft may have hearings in some part of the frame of the barn, or may be set in a separate frame, as

I shown. In large barns, this invention has been found by practical trial to be a great improvement upon the methods heretofore practised. The parts composing:r the machine are few and simple, and consequently will be of small cost. i

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Ia-tent- The combination ofithe vertical shaft A, the loose drum D, working thereon, the pawl a, and brake g, both pivoted to lever within guide c, the sweep-bariC, and the cord l), all arranged substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose specified. y

The above specification of my invention signed by me, this 11th day of December, 1867.

HENRY STRICKLER.

Witnesses:

C. B. THOMPSON, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

